QuantumScape Corporation

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net board stance what this means

5.64

+3.0% · close 2026-09-08

-7% / -23% / -40%

1m / 3m / 12m

-199%

vs SPY since 2021-03-13

of 52w range · -69.4% off high

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hit rate as primary

Where we stand — 0 live ideas

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Where the winds are blowing

NET BOARD STANCE, LAST 45 EPISODES — rising = the besties are building this position, falling = abandoning it. Replayed from score_events; an idea counts from birth until its window closes.

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Who's pushing which way

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Chamath w=0.80 commodities

1 idea (0 live) · last heard E60

pushes up

Track record on QS

No closed window has used this ticker as its primary play, so there is no scored record here yet. Adjacent plays are listed but never scored.

idea	call	play	verdict	R	α	closed
🛢️ Battery metals squeeze — lithium, nickel, cobalt push EV prices up 20-30%	▲ LONG	adjacent	HIT	+13.9%	+6.5	2022-03-13

The tape — what was actually said

every capture on any idea holding QS, newest first · quotes verbatim, timestamps deep-link into the episode

Chamath support ×3 ▲ on 🛢️ Battery metals squeeze — lithium, nickel, cobalt push EV prices up 20-30% E60 · 2021-12-23 ▶ 1:22:49

China has done a masterful job. They control a lot of the lithium, a lot of the nickel, a lot of the cobalt, a lot of the graphite. They control a lot of the rare earths that go into the permanent magnets. And we don't have a solution.

Chamath support ×2 ▲ on 🛢️ Battery metals squeeze — lithium, nickel, cobalt push EV prices up 20-30% E57 · 2021-12-04 ▶ 37:27

We don't have rare earths. We don't have lithium. We don't have nickel. We don't have cobalt. We don't have graphite. So we actually can't make the batteries, which means that now oil is at $100 a barrel and gas costs $10 at the pump.

Chamath support ×1 ▲ on 🛢️ Battery metals squeeze — lithium, nickel, cobalt push EV prices up 20-30% E49 · 2021-10-02 ▶ 1:10:48

yesterday, we're starting something really ambitious in batteries, and I have to sit there for an hour, and we have to go through ordering the equipment, setting up the lab, getting the human resource

Chamath support ×2 ▲ on 🛢️ Battery metals squeeze — lithium, nickel, cobalt push EV prices up 20-30% E41 · 2021-07-23 ▶ 1:30:39

I had a kickoff meeting for a startup that's doing something incredible in batteries ... and then I had a call because I'm trying to put a you know, more than a billion dollars to work in a different battery idea.

Chamath support ×3 ▲ on 🛢️ Battery metals squeeze — lithium, nickel, cobalt push EV prices up 20-30% E27 · 2021-03-27 ▶ 53:53

if you believe in electrification and you believe in, you know, zero emissions and you believe in using these batteries, you need to believe in nickel, which is a tough business, okay? ... And right now, we have a deficit of nickel that's going to emerge now in less than a year. ... And we have about a 37 to 40% shortage of what we need.

Chamath support ×2 ▲ on 🛢️ Battery metals squeeze — lithium, nickel, cobalt push EV prices up 20-30% E25 · 2021-03-13 ▶ 52:04

if you break down the batteries, it goes into three critical inputs, lithium, nickel and cobalt. ... And so the cost of Tesla's are going to go up by 20 or 30%